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by aplusbi 15y ago
I complain about python all the time, but I'm in the minority.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Both - it's required for the garbage collector.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
The difference is in what is being marketed and to whom. Perfume is all about presentation and is marketed towards women. Geeklist is a social media startup marketed towards both genders.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I am not equally offended because I don't feel that the sexualization of men in advertisements is equally offensive. The reason is simple: the sexualization of women comes from a male-fantasy prospective. The sexualization of men also c
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by aplusbi 15y ago
It augments your sense of touch. I suppose this isn't obvious (however it seems obvious to me that many people would want to augment their senses). Does it serve a practical purpose for me? No, I have it because it's "cool" but not at all
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I have a magnet implant and looked into this. I found a study about MRIs and cochlear implants and not once did the study mention any dangers. Instead their concerns were based on demagnetizing the implant, and they found that the risk of
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I have one too! I'm kind of surprised that there are not one, but two other people on HN with magnet implants. And I too am really surprised when people ask "why?" Is it not obvious?
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by aplusbi 15y ago
"Exactly k" is not clear because the picture will still fall if you remove k+1 nails. I think it's harder to get clearer than the way it's stated in the paper: "the picture falls whenever any k out of the n nails get removed, and the pictu
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by aplusbi 15y ago
It was shutdown based on a warrant that was issued based on an accusation (and probably at least some evidence), which makes all the difference.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I think track racers would disagree with your last point there but otherwise yes.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Of course, I just don't think they should be called "accidents." When a person is willfully negligent the damage they cause is no accident.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I'm not arguing against insuring negligence, I'm arguing against calling negligence an accident. It's a neat way of removing culpability. "It was just an accident!"
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by aplusbi 15y ago
"An accident is an accident" I don't like this mentality. Is a collision caused by drunk driving really an accident?
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by aplusbi 15y ago
You're focusing too much on the wrong thing. The point is being able to take a (simple) problem and convert it to code. The problem doesn't matter, the method does.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Here is one for $3300: http://www.audubonstrings.com/oscommerce-2.2ms2-051113/catal... Here's one for $1975: http://www.homerweb.com/vintage/GREAT-Old-Antique-BOURGUIGNO... That said, it doesn't sound like either have been authenticated
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Without knowing the actual details of the transaction, it's possible a more apt analogy would be buying a Picasso and receiving a Matisse - not what you ordered but you're not going to destroy a Matisse. Violins often have fake labels but t
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I lived comfortably in a two bedroom in Brooklyn (with a roommate) near a good elementary school on 42k/year. I had a 30 minute commute.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
My problem with Stackoverflow has been that for the majority of the questions I've asked, I'm more of an expert in the subject matter than the people answering the question. Most of the answers I receive are to the wrong question, or are a
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by aplusbi 15y ago
All the wholefoods in NYC (that I've been to anyway) have done this. You know the voice that tells you which register to go to? That guy used to work (maybe still does?) at the one on 7th and 24th, and his job was to direct people to chec
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by aplusbi 15y ago
They give you an incredible amount of control and balance at slow speeds, which is often useful for city riding. They are also really fun in a way that is hard to explain (at least without sounding really pretentious). Plus they are requir
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Anti-noob is perhaps a bit harsh, but dwm is definitely elitist. It is designed to keep its user base small (see my reply to qjz).
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by aplusbi 15y ago
dwm in particular mentions that it's elitist in order to prevent stupid questions from novices: Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elit
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Another one of the core ideas of dwm is "no noobs" which might explain the lack of documentation.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
The problem isn't with the fact that they turn down gay men. The problem is that they turn down gay men while accepting people who have regularly exposed themselves to HIV, as long as they haven't done that within the past 12 months.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
It's not just about statistics. For blood donations, if I had unprotected sex with a different HIV infected partner every day for a year, then stopped doing this for a year and one day, I would be eligible to donate blood. If, however, I h
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by aplusbi 15y ago
It's actually a violation of the VISA merchant agreement to require ID for purchase unless the signature doesn't match.
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by aplusbi 15y ago
NYU runs a start up incubator: http://www.poly.edu/business/incubators
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by aplusbi 15y ago
Well there is more to an ebook reader than just reading. The more popular ones have stores for buying books, for example. Of course the UI can be designed for hardware buttons but at a certain point you're going to have to strike a balance
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by aplusbi 15y ago
My favorite block in NYC is a triangle, bounded on two sides by one street (Waverly Pl) and one side by two streets (Grove st and Stonewall Pl): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=West+4th+Street,+New+York,+NY&...
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by aplusbi 15y ago
I highly recommend you check out oasis ( http://oasis.forge.ocamlcore.org/ ). It's a meta build system which is quickly gaining traction in the OCaml community. It's still in early development but works extremely well for most projects.

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